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Competitive Advantage: a factor giving an advantage to a nation, company, group, or individual in competitive terms. Used by Michael Porter for the title of his classic...; Competitive Advantage definition on BNET »

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New Tools Help Internal Auditors Transform Purchase-to-Payment Audits for Competitive Advantage: Internal auditors and corporate executives are always looking for ways to give their company a competitive edge. One highly examined area is the purchase-to-payment function. In the purchase-to-payment function, historically internal auditors review samples of transactions for exceptions. If they find none, they conclude there is no problem. The article...; Tags: Protiviti, data analysis, competitive advantage, audit, compliance, tool; White papers
Strategic Competitive Advantage in the Global Automotive Industry: This study identifies top three drivers of competitive advantage for passenger car manufacturers. It identifies branding, scale, and production efficiency and flexibility as the key strategic drivers of competitive advantage in the global automotive industry. It also depicts that it is essential for an automaker to know which operational levers...; Tags: Strategy, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., competitive advantage, automobile company, product development, branding, industry, brand, financial; White papers
Supply Chain and Demand Chain Integration: The Pathway to Profit and Competitive Advantage: Over the last decade, a powerful mandate for sustained business productivity has emerged: to design, alter, and combine products and services to profitably and efficiently meet the needs of customers. "Managing demand for the total value maximization of the enterprise and the supply chains" is the "competitive battleground" of the...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), SAP AG, supply chain, demand chain, competitive advantage, business productivity, SCM, CRM; White papers
How Can a Firm Convert Its Global Presence to Global Competitive Advantage to Gain Certain Benefits?: To convert global presence into a global competitive advantage, companies must exploit five value creation opportunities: adapting to local scale, exploiting economies of global scope, tapping the optimal locations for activities and resources, and maximizing knowledge transfer across locations. This paper discusses the origins of each opportunity and the specific...; Tags: Strategy, Gale Group, competitive advantage, knowledge, benefit; White papers
Demonstrating Personal Competitive Advantage in a "Rightsizing" Environment: Company associates may be wondering what assistance is available to compensate for the additional workload as a result of rightsizing. This article asserts through a discussion that it is in the best interest of all for management to anticipate associates' questions and for the surviving associates to begin developing a...; Tags: Strategy, University of Florida, competitive advantage, SWOT analysis, environment; White papers

Driver-Based Planning: A Competitive Advantage: Driver-based planning is an area of emerging interest within the discipline of Corporate Performance Management, also referred to as Business Performance Management. Analogous to the Oakland A's, the objective of driver-based planning is to develop a more accurate picture of expected future business performance via the intentional management of the...; Tags: Business intelligence, Financial accounting, BetterManagement.com, corporate performance management, business performance management, financial planning, competitive advantage, financial, performance; White papers
Using an Online Commercial Database as a Source of Competitive Advantage in Developing Marketing Strategies and Tactics: The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the use of an online database in providing the foundation for developing a successful competitive strategy. In particular, this paper focuses on the development of market segmentation approach that can be used to identify marketing opportunities and guide the development of a...; Tags: Marketing research, Strategy, Gale Group, competitive strategy, marketing, marketing strategy, B2B, competitive advantage, database; White papers
Conning Research: Life Insurers May Need to Break From Traditional Underwriting Process to Create Competitive Advantage: As convergence and competition accelerate in the insurance industry, life insurers are at a competitive disadvantage as they seek to attract and retain customers interested primarily in simplicity, value, and ease of purchase in their dealings with insurers. For life insurers, the root of this competitive disadvantage may be the...; Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, insurance company, life insurance, competitive advantage; White papers
Using Business Intelligence for Competitive Advantage: Competitive advantages and disadvantages are the strengths and weaknesses of a corporation relative to its present and likely competitors. The overall business intelligence concept is dependent on a process to manage information, using a methodology that integrates with the corporation's functionality and automation. This Business Intelligence Process (BIP) is equally...; Tags: Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, BetterManagement.com, business intelligence, competitive advantage, information system, analysis; White papers
Competitive Advantage and International Business: Examining Path Dependencies in International Business: This paper examines competitive advantage, entry mode, international strategy, and performance. Firms develop certain competencies and capabilities over a long period of time while operating in the domestic environment and these competencies and capabilities form the basis of a firm's competitive advantage. This paper categorizes multinationals into internal focus, external...; Tags: Strategy, Gale Group, competency, competitive advantage, international strategy, environment, performance; White papers
CGI Helps Sun Life Financial Maintain Competitive Advantage: The Sun Life Financial group of companies provide a wide range of savings, retirement, pension, and life and health insurance products and services to individuals and corporate customers. As part of Sun Life's corporate objectives to reduce administration costs, the company decided to outsource its UK IT operations function. Following...; Tags: Scripting languages, Benefits, CGI Group Inc., CGI, IT services, Sun Microsystems Inc., financial, health insurance, outsource, competitive advantage, information technology, health care; Case studies
ANZ Trade Finance Technology Outsourcing for Competitive Advantage: With shrinking margins in the trade business, one of ANZ's biggest challenges has been to improve service levels and increase the scale of operations, without adding costs. The bank must provide its widely dispersed client base with high-quality customer service and consistent products-cost efficiently and without jeopardizing the strength of...; Tags: Financial services, CGI Group Inc., bank, competitive advantage, business process, customer service, best practice, outsourcing, strategy; Case studies
Do Talk to Strangers: Encouraging Performative Ties to Create Competitive Advantage: While many companies have the potential to realize competitive advantage by creating and transferring knowledge more efficiently across employees, few know how to do it successfully, The idea of knowledge as a source for competitive advantage is relatively young, and there's not much research that looks at how knowledge flows...; Tags: Strategy, BetterManagement.com, competitive advantage, knowledge, professional services, asset, industry, computer; White papers
Consistent Performance: The Key to Competitive Business Advantage: Many companies rely on mission critical software like Oracle Applications to support their business operations and maintain their competitive advantage. To optimize competitive advantage, businesses increasingly rely on consistent performance, even during peak hours, to stay of ahead of the competition. To ensure consistent performance, OuterBay Technologies has developed an...; Tags: Performance management, competitive advantage, performance, Oracle Corp., software; Case studies
Welcome to Hypercompetition - Competitive Advantage at Its Fastest: Clearly, globalization in the service sector is a strong indicator that it too may be undergoing a shift similar to the manufacturing sector's shift to hypercompetition. Whatever a firm's business sector, or the intensity of its competition, some strategies continue to endure. To stay in the game profitably, firms must...; Tags: BetterManagement.com, globalization, competitive advantage, manufacturing, strategy, game; White papers
AFS Automates and Integrates Large Bank Operations for Greater Competitive Advantage: This case study explores the syndications process which is a growth and revenue opportunity for all banks, and one of AFS' bank customers wanted to leverage that opportunity. When the bank set out to grow its syndication business, it knew it needed to automate its syndication processes to be more...; Tags: Financial services, Operational accounting, syndication, accounting system, bank, accounting, revenue opportunity, competitive advantage; Case studies
Claiming the Future - Emerging Technologies and Competitive Advantage in Insurance: For most insurance companies today, the confluence of equity exposures, catastrophic losses and the need for reserve strengthening - on top of underlying infrastructural challenges - are making for a turbulent ride into an uncertain future. Yet not all insurers are being shaken by the volatility and unpredictability of the...; Tags: Investment, Strategy, Accenture Ltd., insurance company, volatility, competitive advantage, equity, insurance, environment, industry; White papers
Exploiting SCM as Source of Competitive Advantage: The Importance of Cooperative Goals Revisited: The majority of studies on Supply Chain Management (SCM) emphasize the importance of cooperative relationships for improving the integration of business processes into a supply chain. It seems accepted that SCM will be a source of competitive advantage if, and only if, firms that participate in it formalize a strategic...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Business structures, Gale Group, SCM, supply chain, competitive advantage, partnership, corporate culture, business process; White papers
The Four Waves of Process Management: The business concept of "Process" is not new. But as the twenty-first century begins, "Process" has become a revolutionary concept capable of transforming the ways a company achieves and sustains competitive advantage. It is inarguable that process management (TQM, reengineering, etc) has helped industry save billions in operating cost and...; Tags: Sales strategy, Strategy, Enterprise software, BetterManagement.com, Process Management, competitive advantage, Total Quality Management, re-engineering, customer satisfaction, sales, industry; White papers
Huntington National Bank Gains Competitive Advantage Through a Best-in-Class Originations Platform: Huntington National Bank, the primary subsidiary of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated, a $30 billion regional bank holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, was seeking to replace its homegrown originations system with a best-in-class solution that would allow greater flexibility, functionality, and scalability. After evaluating systems from several providers, Huntington turned to...; Tags: Financial services, CGI Group Inc., competitive advantage, scalability, bank, strategy; Case studies